Whore vs Prostitution - What's the difference?
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(vulgar) A prostitute.
(vulgar, pejorative) A person who is considered to be sexually promiscuous (see also: slut).
* 2004 , Dennis Cooper, The Sluts , page 250
(vulgar) A person who is unscrupulous, especially one who compromises their principles for gain.
(vulgar) A person who will violate behavioral standards to achieve something desired.
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(vulgar) A contemptible person.
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(obsolete) A mistress or wife.
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(vulgar) To prostitute oneself.
(vulgar) To engage the services of a prostitute.
(vulgar) To pimp; to pander.
(vulgar) To pursue false gods.
(vulgar) To pursue false goals.
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Engaging in sexual activity with another person in exchange for compensation, such as money or other valuable goods.
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(by extension) Debasement for unworthy profit or motives.
As nouns the difference between whore and prostitution
is that whore is (vulgar) a prostitute while prostitution is prostitution.As a verb whore
is (vulgar) to prostitute oneself.whore
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Noun
(en noun)- So after he fucks the shit out of me, he tells me I'm lying about his whore not being Brad.
- The merciless Macdonald – worthy to be a rebel, for that the multiplying villainies of nature do swarm upon him – from the Western Isles of kerns and gallowglasses is supplied, and fortune on his damned quarrel smiling showed like a rebel's whore .
Derived terms
* he-whore * whoredom * whorehouse * whoreish * whorelike * whorely * whoremongerSynonyms
* (prostitute) See also * (promiscuous woman) See alsoVerb
(whor)See also
* attention whore * concubine * cute hoor (Hiberno-English) * graphics whore * hooker * harlot * stat whore * whore out * whorey * whorish, whoreish * AIDS whore, crackwhoreAnagrams
* *prostitution
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(wikipedia prostitution)Noun
(-)- The FBI typically does not investigate adult prostitution', leaving it as a state and local matter, but in recent years it has made child ' prostitution a priority in a program the FBI calls Operation Cross Country. The program includes highway billboards asking people to call the FBI with tips.
- Her addiction brought her to the point that prostitution was the only means she had to survive.
- The television advertising job was a prostitution of the talents of one of the great writers of the century.